“There is a cloud of uncertainty that will hang over this guy’s head for the foreseeable future.” — Farhad Alavi, a lawyer and expert on American sanctions, on Mexicannational team star Rafael Marquez being placed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s list of Specially Designated Nationals. Alavi said Specially Designated Nationals usually“become kryptonite, or […]
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Pro-Rel to CAS: The hurdles proponents face
Pro-rel is a subject that will not go away. The latest: the NASL’s Miami FC and amateur Kingston Stockade FC of the NPSL are taking U.S. Soccer, Concacaf and FIFA to the Court of Arbitration forSport, filing a claim to require promotion and relegation be adopted across all U.S. divisions. The case comes a little […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo has his day in tax court
While his teammates are in Chicago for the MLS All-Star Game, Cristiano Ronaldo was in Spanish court on Monday. He was facing charges of tax evasion, accused of not paying $17.3 million intaxes the Spanish government says he owed. Ronaldo denies them, saying his “conscience is clear.”
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Justice served 28 years after Hillsborough
Justice is often slow, and for the families of 96 Liverpool fans who died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster it was painfully slow, taking more than 28 years for criminal charges to be broughtagainst six men. They followed two investigations — the Independent Police Complaints Commission and Operation Resolve — at a cost […]
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Angel di Maria settles tax case in Spain
Argentine star Angel di Maria, who plays for French Paris St. Germain, has agreed to pay 2 million euros ($2.2 million) to settle his tax case in Spain, where he will plead guilty to twocharges of fraud relating to image rights during his time at Real Madrid.
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MLS: Vancouver Whitecaps rocked by triple arrests
Last week was a bad week for the Vancouver Whitecaps. On Thursday, the club announced that two boys in their residency program have been charged with sexual assault and suspendedindefinitely after an alleged “serious incident” at their training facility. The next day, MLS announced that veteran defender Sheanon Williams had been arrested on Thursday andcharged […]
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Report: Swiss banker set to plead guilty in bribery case
Jorge Arzuaga, an Argentine who worked at Credit Suisse Group AG and Julius Baer Group, is expected to plead guilty in courts in the United States and Switzerland to his role in theinternational soccer corruption. It follows investigations into how banks might have facilitated the movement of millions of dollars in bribe money, sources told […]
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Conmebol presses for criminal charges against Leoz and Figueredo
Conmebol will press charges against a pair of former presidents, Nicolas Leoz and Eugenio Figueredo, for embezzlement, money laundering, forgery and other criminal endeavors withParaguayan prosecutors. Figueredo and Leoz have already been indicted in the U.S. probe of corruption into international soccer and are under house arrest in their respective countries –Uruguay and Paraguay. Conmebol […]
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Former Guatemalan judge pleads guilty in soccer bribes case
Former Guatemalan judge Hector Trujillo pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy in the soccer corruption probe after admitting to Federal authorities he took hundreds of thousands of dollars inbribes for sports marketing contracts from a Miami, Florida, sports marketing company. Trujillo, general secretary of Guatemala’s soccer federation when he was arrested in December 2015 […]